I am a 39 year old man...and I just sat there. And I cried. And shout-cried. And shout-cried. And cried even more...I've never been happier for not spoiling myself by scrolling through youtube beforehand when I watched the Game Awards just now (I watched them a few hours after they were live).
No game in the universe is more deserving of a sequel than Okami. It's surreal to see that we live in a timeline in which an almost 20-year-old neglected masterpiece is finally getting its flowers (see what I did there, lol). Anyway, my favorite game of all is getting a sequel at last. It's a dream come true.
Omg I totally understand you when it comes to loving niche properties that don't get the love you know they deserve. Especially as it comes to artsier games. I am so, SO glad to see a sequel of Ōkami. I actually made a character in one of my Pathfinder campaigns I play with friends that was heavily inspired by Ōkami Amaterasu.
I have been crying on and off since the announcement last night. I just...this game is my comfort game. The one I will always go back to. I also have ADHD and I 100% that game. It is timeless. Geoff was really on the point when he said the stars aligned for this. To know that this game is going to get a proper sequel is just beyond the realm of my dreams. I made my peace with believing that it would never happen. To see so many people CRYING over the announcement is such solidarity to know that this game is still so well loved.
As far as I’m aware, Okami is the only game in which the music, the art style, the gameplay mechanics, the setting, the characters and the plot exist in near-perfect synchronicity. It is the most well-executed package in the entire history of the videogame medium. The fact that Capcom (perhaps intentionally) failed to market it effectively is one of the worst fumbles the company ever made. The fact that modern Capcom is out here embracing their mistakes in abandoning or neglecting vast swaths of their IP stable by giving them long-deserved sequels is shaping up to be one of the greatest redemption stories ever told.
I campaigned so hard for Amaterasu in smash and a new Okami game, I saw the announcement in 2019 but kind of lost hope after they said they might have went overboard. But to see this being real I haven't cried at a videogame announcement since Sora and this truly feels like my prayers to the sun has been answered
You absolutely won't regret it! I played this back when it came out in 06, and I haven't shut up about it since 😂 it's one of my favorite games of all times, easily top 2
I'm happy you got this moment, Amalia. It's definitely an amazing surprise that people really deserve. I got my own moment like this when Echoes of Wisdom was announced, so I have an idea of how you feel. So enjoy it! And I look forward to yeeting a copy of this game at your face when it releases 🎁
I read the comments and cry even more. My friends didn't like the game at the time, they were into zelda. I thought I was alone crying while Reset played at the end, and Issun and Ammy... Well looks like I was not alone, at all. Welcome back Okami, as you can see we still love you.
I too am a fan of Okami, and was ecstatic to see its return after nearly 2 decades!! Crazy to think that's around half of some of our lives lol, but as fans, it made it that much more impactful after Clover Studio was dismantled so many years ago. Love that Kamiya is coming back with Clovers for this project and what it could also mean for some of their other IPs, and that's still in addition to new potential IPs! What I love about this announcement besides how exciting it is for existing fans like us, is that it'll FINALLY get its chance to bring in new fans to Okami too! :)
You really put everything I was thinking into words. No joke, every video game conference whenever Capcom’s logo would show up I would hope. And be crushed. Every. Single. Time. All that hope feels vindicated now.
Honestly anyone saying Okami has too similar gameplay to Twilight Princess has never played Okami. TP remains my favorite Zelda but Okami absolutely stomps on Zelda as a whole. It's a masterpiece and an unbelievably fun and engaging experience Also I fully agree with you about the last major emotional reveal being BK in Smash
Okami is the first Rpg I ever completed as a child and my favorite game of all time. I will definitely be preordering it and playing day one, and I'll play it over and over again like I did with the original. I hope that others play it, and understand the beauty of this game like we do.
Wow, so great to see someone else's favourite game of all time is Okami as well. ❤ Plus you love Star Fox Adventures! Me too. I'd love to be able to play it again on the Switch.
viewed the "summarized" video and was in it merely "checking" what kind of jokes are there this time ... Capcom made my day ... i actually cried tears .... the MANY trolls who told me to give up, it's not happening .. and i always kept my faith .. this is a victory!
God, it felt so good when you called it Okami 1... I feel like most of us who really loved Okami "felt" it was Okami as soon as the Japanese music and the ink artstyle shows up...
Astro Bot had an Ammy cameo and a friend of mine joked that’s the most action Ōkami is going to see for a long time. He wasn’t an Ōkami hater, just pessimistic, and who can blame him? Now us gamers won.
I practically broke my throat with how loudly I yelled in my VC. I love the original Okami, but I could never have predicted Okami 2. I'm so excited to see it come back.
I hope we find out who is the father of chibi, also I hope to see ottohimes baby and also Kushiro and Susanos baby and there adopted son❤ I love this game sooooo much! It’s shrinking mallet and sunken ship parts helped me deal with my phobias! This game means the world to me!❤❤❤❤
I've finished Okami again couple weeks ago, on the Switch this time, and it's been a little more than a decade since I've finished the first time on the PS2, and the ending made me cry even more than the first time. I don't know what it is with that ending that gets me so much, unlike a lot of games that you know when it's trying to make you cry, in Okami it comes so organic, it's such a beautiful game. And the announcement made me cry too, so that makes 3 times now that Okami made me cry 😂 Please Amaterasu, origin of all that is good and mother to us all, let this game be good 🙏
I've been just consuming all the reactions from people. My heart was so bricked off from the possibility that we'd be here and I'm shook. I tear up a little every time I see the bloom used on the flower and the focus on just the beauty of this single flower being important. It just speaks so much to what Okami is about
Everything youve said resonated with me, the entire experience youve had with the game. Amazing how this game has touched so many of us.. yet not many at the same. Time. We are blessed
Okami is easily a top 5 game of all time for me as well, and probably number 1 among games from my childhood. I honestly never thought it would get a sequel because I never thought that it really needed one. That being said, I was watching the Game Awards last night with friends and I did the same exact thing, joked that it was Okami, and IT ACTUALLY WAS!!! The fact that the teaser visuals looked so fucking gorgeous, and that they got Hideki Kamiya back working with Capcom, with a new studio called CLOVERS, it was just such a magical moment for me. This will be my most anticipated game until the day it releases, nothing can surpass it.
Glad to still see others who went crazy seeing the announcement. 32 year olds, All these years I've always said Okami was my favourite game of all time. Seeing the announcement trying to cram for my OBGYN exam at 2 am... I was just DONE! I think Okami won't be out before I"m done or in the middle of medical residency... but I'm all for it. I love the game T_T
Ōkamiden is a sequel the same way Chain of Memories is. It is the second game and chronologically takes place after Ōkami, but is referred to as a spin-off or side story. The Den part of Ōkamiden even comes from “Gaiden,” a term that refers to a side-story that isn’t usually treated as a proper sequel.
I didn't need a sequel to Okami, that game feels super complete, even though Kamiya recently said the original script was much bigger, but this news has shocked and blown me away. It's like a top 3 game for me. Unfortunately this game is probably going to be 2028 at the earliest, but it's hard to complain about waiting for a thing you never expected to happen. The thing about Okami I wish people talked about more than its art is how funny it is, it's one of the funniest games I've ever played. Okamiden is ok... Yeah, it's ok... kinda.
I have, no lie, just started playing through Okami for the first time(bought it on Series X) just based on listening to your passion and love for the game! Btw, thank you for your opinion on Windwaker. You are literally the only person I have ever met that loved it too!
Okami (original PS2 version) was truly amazing and one of few 100% games I have FULLY completed…the HD remastered version is also great. Shame that the Wii version is a missed opportunity with the extremely wonky controls 😢
Ugly crying gang rise up! I played through this game when i was 9 on the ps2 in my parents room and I. Cant believe it still im still at a loss for words this is real. We feast our time is now!!!❤
The friendship between Issun and Ammy is just beautiful. I love Okami.
I am a 39 year old man...and I just sat there. And I cried. And shout-cried. And shout-cried. And cried even more...I've never been happier for not spoiling myself by scrolling through youtube beforehand when I watched the Game Awards just now (I watched them a few hours after they were live).
Our unknown wait is Over! :''')
I'm 50 and I cried 😅
Man I'm 42 and can't remember last time I cried for happines that much.
Oh man I'm so jealous as I found out first thing this morning by browsing reddit in the bathroom
I am 37, I cried as well🥹🥹🥹
No game in the universe is more deserving of a sequel than Okami. It's surreal to see that we live in a timeline in which an almost 20-year-old neglected masterpiece is finally getting its flowers (see what I did there, lol). Anyway, my favorite game of all is getting a sequel at last. It's a dream come true.
Our girl has come home
I literally started jumping around my room like a little kid, Ōkami bringing me back
Omg I totally understand you when it comes to loving niche properties that don't get the love you know they deserve. Especially as it comes to artsier games. I am so, SO glad to see a sequel of Ōkami. I actually made a character in one of my Pathfinder campaigns I play with friends that was heavily inspired by Ōkami Amaterasu.
Praise the sun.
I have been crying on and off since the announcement last night. I just...this game is my comfort game. The one I will always go back to. I also have ADHD and I 100% that game. It is timeless. Geoff was really on the point when he said the stars aligned for this. To know that this game is going to get a proper sequel is just beyond the realm of my dreams. I made my peace with believing that it would never happen. To see so many people CRYING over the announcement is such solidarity to know that this game is still so well loved.
As far as I’m aware, Okami is the only game in which the music, the art style, the gameplay mechanics, the setting, the characters and the plot exist in near-perfect synchronicity. It is the most well-executed package in the entire history of the videogame medium.
The fact that Capcom (perhaps intentionally) failed to market it effectively is one of the worst fumbles the company ever made.
The fact that modern Capcom is out here embracing their mistakes in abandoning or neglecting vast swaths of their IP stable by giving them long-deserved sequels is shaping up to be one of the greatest redemption stories ever told.
Capcom and Sega both reviving old IPs is such a redemption story in itself
I campaigned so hard for Amaterasu in smash and a new Okami game, I saw the announcement in 2019 but kind of lost hope after they said they might have went overboard. But to see this being real I haven't cried at a videogame announcement since Sora and this truly feels like my prayers to the sun has been answered
I've always heard good things about Okami!
... And it's not-so-coincidentally $5 on Steam right now.
I think it may be a sign.
You absolutely won't regret it! I played this back when it came out in 06, and I haven't shut up about it since 😂 it's one of my favorite games of all times, easily top 2
DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!!
It'll be the best $5 you've ever spent in your life.
Wait really, I just checked yesterday and it was still full price D:
I'm happy you got this moment, Amalia. It's definitely an amazing surprise that people really deserve. I got my own moment like this when Echoes of Wisdom was announced, so I have an idea of how you feel. So enjoy it! And I look forward to yeeting a copy of this game at your face when it releases 🎁
I read the comments and cry even more. My friends didn't like the game at the time, they were into zelda. I thought I was alone crying while Reset played at the end, and Issun and Ammy... Well looks like I was not alone, at all. Welcome back Okami, as you can see we still love you.
AMMY IS BACK!!!! SHE IS BACK!!!!
🌸🌺 Real gamers rise up 🌺🌸
I too am a fan of Okami, and was ecstatic to see its return after nearly 2 decades!! Crazy to think that's around half of some of our lives lol, but as fans, it made it that much more impactful after Clover Studio was dismantled so many years ago. Love that Kamiya is coming back with Clovers for this project and what it could also mean for some of their other IPs, and that's still in addition to new potential IPs!
What I love about this announcement besides how exciting it is for existing fans like us, is that it'll FINALLY get its chance to bring in new fans to Okami too! :)
You really put everything I was thinking into words. No joke, every video game conference whenever Capcom’s logo would show up I would hope. And be crushed. Every. Single. Time.
All that hope feels vindicated now.
As someone who's been waiting for an Otogi 3 announcement for almost 20 years, I am so happy for you Okami fans. Enjoy this moment!
Honestly anyone saying Okami has too similar gameplay to Twilight Princess has never played Okami. TP remains my favorite Zelda but Okami absolutely stomps on Zelda as a whole. It's a masterpiece and an unbelievably fun and engaging experience
Also I fully agree with you about the last major emotional reveal being BK in Smash
Okami is the first Rpg I ever completed as a child and my favorite game of all time. I will definitely be preordering it and playing day one, and I'll play it over and over again like I did with the original. I hope that others play it, and understand the beauty of this game like we do.
Wow, so great to see someone else's favourite game of all time is Okami as well. ❤
Plus you love Star Fox Adventures! Me too. I'd love to be able to play it again on the Switch.
This announcement seriously almost made me cry. I love Okami so much
viewed the "summarized" video and was in it merely "checking" what kind of jokes are there this time ...
Capcom made my day ... i actually cried tears .... the MANY trolls who told me to give up, it's not happening .. and i always kept my faith .. this is a victory!
Hideki kamiya will always be my goat,play everything he has directed,you won't regret it
God, it felt so good when you called it Okami 1...
I feel like most of us who really loved Okami "felt" it was Okami as soon as the Japanese music and the ink artstyle shows up...
I know we know nothing about it yet, but I truly believe that if all goes well this game could be one of the best games ever made.
Astro Bot had an Ammy cameo and a friend of mine joked that’s the most action Ōkami is going to see for a long time. He wasn’t an Ōkami hater, just pessimistic, and who can blame him? Now us gamers won.
I practically broke my throat with how loudly I yelled in my VC. I love the original Okami, but I could never have predicted Okami 2. I'm so excited to see it come back.
🎵 Can we get much higher? 🎵
I'm glad I lived long enough to see this.
I hope we find out who is the father of chibi, also I hope to see ottohimes baby and also Kushiro and Susanos baby and there adopted son❤ I love this game sooooo much! It’s shrinking mallet and sunken ship parts helped me deal with my phobias! This game means the world to me!❤❤❤❤
I've finished Okami again couple weeks ago, on the Switch this time, and it's been a little more than a decade since I've finished the first time on the PS2, and the ending made me cry even more than the first time. I don't know what it is with that ending that gets me so much, unlike a lot of games that you know when it's trying to make you cry, in Okami it comes so organic, it's such a beautiful game. And the announcement made me cry too, so that makes 3 times now that Okami made me cry 😂 Please Amaterasu, origin of all that is good and mother to us all, let this game be good 🙏
This is one of my most wanted games, and yeah, I cried too.
The HD version is only $5 on Steam right now. Now’s your chance 😏
I've been just consuming all the reactions from people. My heart was so bricked off from the possibility that we'd be here and I'm shook. I tear up a little every time I see the bloom used on the flower and the focus on just the beauty of this single flower being important. It just speaks so much to what Okami is about
Everything youve said resonated with me, the entire experience youve had with the game. Amazing how this game has touched so many of us.. yet not many at the same. Time. We are blessed
Okami is easily a top 5 game of all time for me as well, and probably number 1 among games from my childhood. I honestly never thought it would get a sequel because I never thought that it really needed one. That being said, I was watching the Game Awards last night with friends and I did the same exact thing, joked that it was Okami, and IT ACTUALLY WAS!!! The fact that the teaser visuals looked so fucking gorgeous, and that they got Hideki Kamiya back working with Capcom, with a new studio called CLOVERS, it was just such a magical moment for me. This will be my most anticipated game until the day it releases, nothing can surpass it.
Glad to still see others who went crazy seeing the announcement. 32 year olds, All these years I've always said Okami was my favourite game of all time. Seeing the announcement trying to cram for my OBGYN exam at 2 am... I was just DONE! I think Okami won't be out before I"m done or in the middle of medical residency... but I'm all for it. I love the game T_T
The sun will always rise
Ōkamiden is a sequel the same way Chain of Memories is. It is the second game and chronologically takes place after Ōkami, but is referred to as a spin-off or side story. The Den part of Ōkamiden even comes from “Gaiden,” a term that refers to a side-story that isn’t usually treated as a proper sequel.
My immediate thought when I heard that music sting at the start was Okami. And i was doubting myself until Rising Sun hit
Now I'm wondering if theres a trend cause everyone I've talked to that loves Okami loves Wind Waker.
I didn't need a sequel to Okami, that game feels super complete, even though Kamiya recently said the original script was much bigger, but this news has shocked and blown me away. It's like a top 3 game for me. Unfortunately this game is probably going to be 2028 at the earliest, but it's hard to complain about waiting for a thing you never expected to happen. The thing about Okami I wish people talked about more than its art is how funny it is, it's one of the funniest games I've ever played.
Okamiden is ok... Yeah, it's ok... kinda.
I have, no lie, just started playing through Okami for the first time(bought it on Series X) just based on listening to your passion and love for the game! Btw, thank you for your opinion on Windwaker. You are literally the only person I have ever met that loved it too!
Okami (original PS2 version) was truly amazing and one of few 100% games I have FULLY completed…the HD remastered version is also great. Shame that the Wii version is a missed opportunity with the extremely wonky controls 😢
My top 3
1. Xenogears
2. Okami
3. Tales of Vesperia
Also Okami is $5 on steam right now
Ugly crying gang rise up! I played through this game when i was 9 on the ps2 in my parents room and I. Cant believe it still im still at a loss for words this is real. We feast our time is now!!!❤
My immediate reaction was the KSI YES YES YES! but without the NO NO NO!
never sympathized with a video so much
I played okami-den, and I can say that although in many aspects it is a downgrade compared to Okami, it is still a very beautiful and fun game
This stole the show for me. Nothing else matters.